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Infuse the root, use it for coughs.

Always find the design hidden in the random.

What do you see?

A turtle shell separated into 13 parts.

Nature's design has power.

-Oh, the great hunter returns

-with bunnies. -For you, Moolsum.

-Want to help me clean some fish I caught this morning?

Don't worry about him.

Every hunt counts.

I still think that they should let me go on a real one.

My mom thinks I need to be patient and keep training.

-Sounds like Apto. -At least he believes in you.

-Makes one of us. -Stop.

You're gonna make a great healer someday.

-He knows it, so do I. -Guys!

Guys! Guys! Look!

-What? -This!

What is that?

-Hair! -Ugh! On your face?

Like an Englishman.

Neekani, clan mothers are calling council.

The Scouts brought news

of the English settlement to the south.

The rains washed out their dwellings.

Disease hit their camp.

They won't make it through another winter.

It seems they're looking to the Western Woods to rebuild.

We've warned them of the danger that lies inside it.

Yes.

What lives in there will feed on them and become strong enough

to leave the woods.

Our village would be in danger.

Seski, what do you propose?

We stop them before they can reach it.

Times are hard enough without starting a war with them.

Our own food supplies will be low

because they've overhunted.

-Which is why we should hunt the Western Wood.

Neekani.

If we need food, we should go where there's prey.

If it's too much for the hunters, send me.

No one goes in there. Not us, not the English.

I know the stories.

But have you ever even seen it?

-The Kollu? -I don't need to.

For generations, our people have lived in balance with what lies

in those woods by staying out.

We do not feed it.

That's how we keep it small.

Now close your mouth and open your ears like the others.

-What was that? Hmm?

You think you know better than your elders now?

The settlers bring war, disease, a vengeful god.

Neekani, please.

We already lost your father to their pox.

You need to think of this community first,

because what would we...

What would I do without you?

- Neekani. -What are you doing?

I heard what happened at the council.

Awendela told me.

-Just go home, Kino. -Hey, please don't tell me

you're going where I think you're going.

Aren't you too old to believe those children's stories?

-Okay, but... -Kino, our village needs meat.

You're gonna quarter and drag a bear back yourself?

You needed my help cleaning fish.

Fine.

-The two of us, then. -Three.

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

-You need me. I'm real strong. -Maneese, go home.

I come or I tell.

Fine.

Come on, keep up.

The Western Wood.

Doesn't look so bad.

Are we really doing this?

Why? Are you scared of the Kollu?

No. Just settlers.

Right. Come on, then.

Probably just birds.

Settler!

-Guys! Guys!

Run!

Kwai.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, the turtle sure smiled on you today, didn't it?

How did you do that? Scare them off?

It doesn't like this.

Oh, you shouldn't be here.

-It's not safe. -We were just hunting.

-Will they come back? -Oh. Most definitely. Yes.

But we'll be safe.

Camp is near. Come. I can feed you.

Those things are scared of him. Just stay close.

What turtle?

Come on.

Mitig, what were those things?

Not things.

Thing.

-So what does it want?

To eat, to grow...

to survive.

Mostly eat.

What does it eat?

It likes the meat that has the biggest dreams,

that has the endless fear.

It's real.

But we're lucky. The turtle protects us.

-You wanna talk to him? -Talk to who?

Maturin, the great turtle,

had been locked in a cosmic battle

against the monster,

long before the Earth even existed.

After a terrible struggle, Maturin won,

and he banished that thing to Earth,

bound inside a falling star.

Its bindings broke open.

The evil spirit was released and roamed the woods

for a million years.

But the turtle showed me the cavern where it crashed.

That's where I found the remains of its cage,

the only thing that could stop it.

Where are the rest of your people?

My hunting party was hunted. One by one.

By one.

By one.

It wore the skin of a bull moose.

Fur black as midnight.

Antlers of sharpened bone...

...pierced the men through their heads.

Just like stringing beads.

Oh, those yellow eyes.

All I could do

was hide.

Uh, I'm so sorry.

I've been holding it in for a long time.

-Is there a good place to... -Out that way.

Stay near the cedars.

I can't protect you beyond there.

Nope.

Oh. Here my boy. Sit down.

You don't want the meat to get cold.

Eat.

Eat.

Eat up. Eat up.

We need more firewood.

Hey, what's wrong?

He's killing them.

There's bodies carved in the forest.

Was that the...

-Was that the meat?

We have to leave. We have to go.

-What are you doing? -The root he was smoking.

-I'm a medicine woman. -No, you're not.

In training. I'm curious.

What are you doing?

That's mine, not yours.

It's my root. My turtle.

-We're gonna leave. -Oh, where are you going?

Well, you can't go out there. It'll take you.

In the worst way that you could imagine.

I can deliver you quicker than the last ones.

Be with your ancestors

while your screams are still echoing--

Come on, we gotta go!

-I got it!

-Bring it back!

Keep going! Just keep running!

You bring me back my dagger!

Keep going!

-Just keep running! -You stupid children!

-This way. -I will kill you for this!

You don't understand!

It's not a monster! That thing!

It's a god!

Gods demand sacrifice!

I had no choice!

It had to be fed!

I gave you the food of the gods!

Please come back! Please!

Don't leave me alone!

It was mine!

It was mine!

Hm. Can't have any fear.

This is impossible.

It killed them outside of the woods.

We're not safe here anymore.

-Nigwis. -Neekani?

-We're here! -How is she in there?

Neekani?

-Mother! -Stay close.

Neekani!

Neekani!

Mom.

I found a new god!

-Do you know why we've come here?

It's a wide, open land.

A new world with the freedom to worship the one, true god.

And do you know what we do when we come across

a smaller, pitiful faith?

We devour it!

Seski...

Seski...

-Come now, Seski.

Your beloved husband waits by the Lord's side.

Not quite as handsome as before, what with the pox and all.

For this to work, you must have faith.

-And your faith is...

...insignificant.

Prepare to meet thy God!

"The Word became flesh,

and we witnessed the glory of his Son."

-"He is mighty."

"He is vengeful, and it is time for you to meet him."

Mom? Mom!

Mom!

Mom, no!

Mom!

Mom.

Neekani.

Listen to me. You have to stop it.

-Mm-hmm.

No, we're going to finish this together. Me and you.

You... you have to protect our home.

I'm not strong enough.

-I'm not brave enough. -You are braver than you think.

Mom! No! Mom!

No!

The boundary has shifted, and we need to stop it.

Neekani, we have no choice.

We have decided to move the village.

This place has been our home for generations.

My mother fought and died to protect it.

In the absence of knowing what path to take,

we have no choice

but to take the one in front of us.

What if there was another way?

Wanna talk to him?

-What's going on? -She took the root.

From the man in the Western Wood.

-What did you see? -He showed me how to save us.

How to cage it.

It's what my mother would have done.

And it's what we have to do now.

What do we need to do?

The turtle showed Kino

how to find the cave in the Western Wood,

where it had crashed millions of years ago.

We gathered 13 stones...

the shards of its old bindings...

to forge a new cage.

We give it enough room to live, to sleep, and hunt.

It will take the colonists,

and more will come to replace them.

We cannot keep the settlers out...

but we can keep it in.

And once it is caged,

it will leave us to ours.

This keeping of the posts, this tending of the cage...

we will ensure these shards,

these pillars, remain in place forever.